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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1927.

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IS THAT

SO?

Thoughts Terse, Perverse and Worse.

BY "THE MAILMAN."

"We have no sovereign remedy for piracy," says the "Daily Press" in an editorial. Alas, that is so!

Saya Peter, one bf those local racing Lipsters makes quite a lot of money-playing poker.

The girl whose boy admits he is only a pebble in her life often wishes he was a little boulder.

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The Impudent Beggar.

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morning in the shade of the

Water Police Station.

POLICE POWERS.

"WIPING OUT THE LAW, OF ENGLAND.”

MOTORISTS AND ARREST,

THE CHINA MAIL.

STOLEN CURRENT?

ALLEGED TAMPERING WITH METERS.

WILBUR PLAYERS.

THREE PLAYS FOR THREE NIGHTS.

PROGRAMME CHANGED.

Three plays are to be given on each successive night, "The High Cost of Loving" to-night, "The Girl From 'Childs'" to-morrow night and "Her Unborn Child" on Friday night.

COOL THIEF.

ROBBERY AT BATHING MATSHED.

QUESTION OF A SUMMONS.

A further adjournment was madej At the Kowloon Magistracy The programme of the Wilbur by Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday! We hear that the "Mudford" afternoon in the Repulse Bay Road Yesterday afternoon, Mr. W. Players has been amended for Moderate party being re- case after more argument had been Schofield heard a case in which the three remaining nights dur suscitated for the purpose of heard from Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton the manager of the Sun Kaming which they will give per- making representations to the who is defending the two Chinese, San Restaurant was charged formances at the "Star" Theatre,

Kowloon. Government in connection with Chang Hin-ehun and Li Shiu-niu with the larceny of electricity.

charged with the violation of traffic The prosecution was conduct- the "popularising" of Repulse regulations."

ed by Mr. H. J. Armstrong, soll- Bay by erecting a public matshed. The Captain Superintendent of

"Do we want our Police (Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe) citor for the China Light and town to become a second Black-¡appeared for the prosecution.

Power Company, while the de- Dealing with the ordinance giv. fendant was represented by Mr. pools" was the Moderate Party

ing the police power to arrest "any- D. McCallum. war-cry.

one who may be charged with or The defendant was charged who may be suspected of being with larceny of electricity by Through reserving those new guilty of any offence." Mr. Bruttun tampering with meters, said Mr. kathing cubicles at Repulse Bay commented that if the ordinance Armstrong, but the case against for "two persons at a charge of 20 were construed without any limita- The lad who solicits alms every cents per head" it seems it really tion it would override all the con- the man in Court could not be will be necessary to add to them,titutional laws of England with proceeded with as he had been

regard to arrest.

informed by Mr. McCallum, that Counsel argued that Inspector the man who had appeared to embroid-Grant should have stated by what answer the summons was not authority he was arresting Chang, the man whose name appeared

JUST HELPED HIMSELF. The mere statement that the don the writ. This man, the fendant had broken certain trafic licensee of the restaurant, had ing matshed at the Kennedy Town Strolling into the men's dress- regulations was not enough. If a} board construction was put on the gone to Shanghai. As it was beach yesterday, a Chinese help- police regulation relating to ar- impossible to proceed against ed himself to a black suit of Chin- rest. Mr. Brutton said that a police the manager on the same sum-ese clothing which he wrapped in man could lay hand on any person, mons, Mr. Armstrong suggested a piece of paper and calmly walk- and the mun so arrested had no that the original summons ed out. He was stopped by a de power to resist.

Mr. Lindsell pointed out that against the licensee be withdrawn, tective and taken into custody. hawkers were being arrested every against the manager, who, Mr. at the station a gold wrist watch and another be taken out When the clothing was inspected day under that law.

Mr. Brutton replied that the two Armstrong understood, was pre- found in one of the coat pockets. cases of arrest were entirely dif- pared to answer the charge. This morning he was charged ferent. A hawker was arrested The A message from Zamboanga for selling without a licence which altering the

Magistrate suggested before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with the; states that July. 4 celebrations was a direct contravention of the original

the theft of the clothing- and the were marred by a Moro who ran law, while the arrest of a motorist McCallum proposed that as

summons, but Mr. watch, and although he was wear-

aing a white suit, the accused said] amok and killed his divorced wife, who brake some traffic regulational decapitated another, and attacked merely meant that he had commit-matter of 'procedure the sum- that he had taken the clothing by two children before he was shot tel a breach.

mons should De dismissed mistake. Sergt. Whant told the

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"Over and over again," said Mr. Churchill the other day.. "it has happened to me to think of something which I thought was I been already exploited and worth saying only to find that it very often spoiled before I had an opportunity of saying it." Nothing like being modest about it.

The correspondent who is calling for a Y.M.C.A. balance sheet apparently wants to know where those two cents go to.

When the grass with dew is wet, Little skirt, you need not fret; Up above it you're so high That you can't help keeping dry.

Says Peter, its developed into a dolly affair, this white" line

business.

A Labour member has been complaining in Parliament that soldiers accommodated in Hong Kong have been getting too wet. We hear that "Bri-

tish Boy" is thinking of writing a letter to the paper asking how they manage it with beer at 50 cents a bottle!

Says Peter, berthed ships mean beached crews.

It is no trouble at all to start It's the fellow who a job. finishes it who succeeds.

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Hong Kong tourists looking

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"See what a touch of ery will do advt. Umph!

The Chinese who was caught with a missing chicken in his hat should have produced a rabbit when challenged.

A parson says it is a rash thing for middle-age to pronounce ver- dicts what youth is thinking

1. So 'twould be for youth,

jealous!

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"Extraordinarily Wide."

Bomes on

and killed by a constabulary sol- Mr. Lindsell was unable to see against the licensee and a fresh Magistrate that there had been dier.

. Chicago will be alr. Brutton's point.

one be taken out against the three or four thefts on that same manager.

beach during the last month, and although detectives had been placed on duty on the beach, it had been very difficult to make an arrest.

Consul. "Américan Canton for leave in (local newspaper) must really have left.

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Mr. Brutton: If your Worship Evidence for the prosecution construes the Ordinance as widely was that when the No. 1 méter Leaves

as you seem inclined to do you not reader visited the premises, the America"only wipe out the law of England, defendant offered him a bribe He you also wipe out the protection not to report the matter,

and Remarking that the accused which a British subject and anyone this Mr. Armstrong contended, simply went to the beach to steal, under the British flag may be en- Litled to expect, and I ask your showed that the defendant knew the Magistrate convicted and In order to maintain the status Worship to consider very carefully that the meters were being tam- passed sentence of six weeks' jail.

possible the before you find a constable has no pered with, although he did not second hand woods for Peak limit to his power of arrest. do it himself. lawn bowlers will only be ac-

There was evidence also that cepted from this side of the har-provisions of the Police Ordinance the three meters in the restaur- STRICKEN PEOPLES.

were extraordinarily wide. "Is it ant had been tested, and the same as the Police Act at home, showed that

on certain dates Mr. Woife?" they are the same.

Mr. Wolfe: I cannot say whether the hands had been turned back. The case was adjourned for a week.

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Has the "very influential mem- ber" who thought of it first con: sidered an occasional "smoker" up there as a recreative depar-

ture?

The Magistrate admitted that the

police anywhere else in the world did not possess such extraordinari- ly wide power.

Mr. Brutton commented that the

Mr. Wolfe: That Ordinance has ust been repealed since 1300 which shows that the police have used

There is no truth in the report. for the district redly illuminated that an effigy of the late Mrs. are requested not to hang around Tang is to be placed in Statue the Post Office or the other Square. buildings cornering Des Voeux Road and Pedder Street..

Hong Kong guide (halting party of tourists at Jardine's cor- Says Peter, if there weren't soner, 2027): "These little white many of those bad women about circles, ladies and gentlemen, we wouldn't know a good pne have an interesting history. Now when we saw her.

in the days of Alexander..."

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The wages of gin is breath. "Constables will wear black boots; subordinate officers may wear white boots"-H. K. Police Reserve orders.

. Such are the sweets of promotion.

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their power with tact.

Mr. Lindsell intimated that he would reserve the point. From the wording of the section, he added, Mr. Brutton did not have a leg to strind on.

Evidence for Defence.

Evidence for the defence was

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PURE MILK.

PRECAUTIONS AT DÁIRY FARM.

this

NEW FILTER INSTALLED.

RELIEF IN TIMES OF GREAT DISASTER.

LEAGUE UNION FORMED,

Geneva, July 12.

The League of Nations confer ence to create an international re- liet union in the case of disasters opened, which opened on. July 4, has concluded its sittings.

The Conference adopted a draft convention and statute providing for the establishment of such a union and fixing its scope and modus operandi in the case of national calamities.

With reference to a discussion at, then taken. The first defendant, a recent Sanitary Board meeting as

The convention provides for the! Chang Hin-shun, went into the wit- to precautions in the matter of the all stricken peoples.

union to operate for the benefit of ess box. He said he had been driv milk supply at the Dairy Farm, Says Peter, however much you ing a motor car in America and Pokfulam, a letter was read from try is subject to the consent of its Action by the union in any coun- allow these Hong Kong wives for Shanghai previous to coming to the Dairy Farm at yesterday's government. clothing they still go around half Hong Kong and had never had any meeting of the Sanitary Board, dressed.

complaint free friends with him pointing out that all water used in general council with headquarters The union will be directed by a he took three the Dairy Farm was boiled, while in Geneva. The traffic light at Arsenal to Repulse Bay in his car No. 565. all washing water was chlorinated.

He admitted having passed Inspec- Street is of a "sickly hue,"actor Grant's car, but said the latter All utensils, including the large addition to an initial fund of cording to a local Magistrate was travelling very slowly, and in-coolers, are submitted to live steam voluntary grants by governments

Probably due to its clined towards the side of the road. so that every possible precaution is and private gifts.--Reuter. turning "green" with envy at The Inspector's car, he added, was being taken to safeguard the public the popularity of the white line throwing out volumes of smoke in the matter of providing a pure But scheme elsewhere.

"Wanted. Accommodation. Would any Peak resident take young Service Officer and wife as paying guests?

is this "done" on the Peak?

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The London City Corporation has voted £500 for the

vision of a Y.M.C.A. hut troops in China.

smoke room to be provided?

pro-

It didn't

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through the exhaust.

and aufe milk.

Upon arrival at Repulse Bay, the With regard to the Dairy Farm

Players to point out that the witness denied using abusive Inn deemed by the Board following cer- need the Wilbur Inspector came up and sarcastically filter at Pokfulam, which Mr. N. L. asked him if he was very smart. Smith (Chairman) said had been whole town's talking about the guage. The Inspector, he said, tain experiments as not entirely for high price of loving in Hong was very angry. Witness was seiz- satisfactory, the Dairy Farm stated Any Kong.

ed by the wrist and then by the that the present filter was to be! collar. As he (defendant) could changed for a combined mechanicalĮ The Chinese Crisis as seen with the

Is it merely coincidence that, not leave the car' at the time, his and declor filter. in British Columbia" "H. K. bathing

return of moonlight foot being on the brake as the car

A Night Nuisance. was then on a slight incline, In- picnics, numerous

Referring to a complaint taken Daily Press."

spector Grant climbed into the ear up by Mr. J. P. Braga as to the Keen- "forthcoming eyed, these Canadians.

wedding" an-and twisted him arm. nouncements have appeared?

Then the mooring af a night-soll junk under Inspector assaulted witness. Several the bows of the Szo Yap, Kong- bathers then came on the scene, moon steamers and in the vicinity According to the C.S.P/6 and although they were at Kowloon ferry is to be put notice published to-day they're the Inspector refused to

doctors, of the new Connaught Road West consideri into operation by 1980, accord- going to make a whale of a fuss their offer to stand surety for the Hotel, the Chairman stated that it witness, but insisted that he should was not easy to find a position travel back to town in the Inspec- which would please everyone, for tor's car. At the station he was such junks which were bound to go That 25 cent, limit clause released on bail of $100 for which somewhere along the waterfront at covering damage cases looks like no receipt was given,

night, arrangements had been made lot of trouble. giving the Attorney-General a The case was adjourned until in this case which would, it was

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Revision of the traffic problem

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ing to newspaper reports over that blinking beacon. There's really no stopping these Government officials once they start on a thing.

In an article reprinted in the "S. C. M. Post" a medical man states that it is dangerous for fair-skinned people to expose themselves to the tropical sun. Case of "losing face," presumably.

25 CENTS LIMIT.

ANOTHER CASE ON DAMAGE VALUES.

controversy,

That cigarette instead of ending in smoke, may end in the Y.MC.A. issuing the statement of accounts so many people are asking for.

11.80 on Friday morning next.

hoped, be an improvement both for' the ships' oficers in question and the residents of the Hotel

Its resources will consist, in

SPY MANIA.

NAVAL OFFICER'S WIDOW TO

DIE. !

Moscow, July 12.

A court martial at Cronstadt has passed the sentenced of death on Madame Klepikoff, widow of Baltic Fleet, who was shot on a the Commander of the Russian

charge of having engaged in "espionage for England," Madame Klepikoff was charged with "complicity and assisting military espionage."-Reuter.

ASKING FOR TROUBLE.

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning, a Chinese was charged with the theft of ten pieces of cloth- ing from No. 7, Salon Terrace at mid-night last night. It was ex- plained by the police that the cloth- ing was on a chair at the foot of an open window on the ground floor, and the accused merely stretched his hand inside and took it. In con- victing the accused, the Magistrate drowning of the chief officer at remarked that people who left Legaspice, P.I.

clothing in such a manner were in-

REVOLVER STOLEN;

Major, H. N. Saddler, R.A., resid-

DEATHS AT SEA. · ing at the RA. quarters in the old] cannery on the Kowloon City Road, The master of the a.s. "Dewey," reports the theft yesterday from his which arrived in Hong Kong yes- to look up the point as it had crop-quarters of a Weblely service re-terday, reporte the death from ped up tivice within two weeks.

The Sergeant asked the Mingis- trate if the accused could be charg ed with trespass, to which Mr. Lindsel! replied that the trespass recognised by the Ordin

only

volver.

WOMAN'S CUT. THROAT.

ance was on Government ground. A Chinese woman was yesterday When a Chinese was charged be- There was only civil redress for removed to the Kwong Wah Hos- fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morn-trespass on private ground unless pital in a serious condition auffer- ing under the "Summary Offences" felonious intent could be proved, ing from a cut in the throat said Ordinances with damaging some damage done by such trespass came to have been self inflicted with a growing shrubs on private property under the law only in accordance razor.

at Pokfulum, the Magistrate told with the provisions made in the

Sergt. Whant that he could not con- other Ordinances mentioned previ

vict unless it could be shown that ously.

damage was done to the minimum The accused was discharged.

value of 25 cents. The "Larceny"

Ordinance also did not apply, the

Broadcasting will not oust

case being a repetition of the coco- the printed word.-Lord Riddell.

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while the "Malleiously Demaging"

Ordinance also had the 25 cente

On the day we get the deeds

clause. His Worship remarked that of our $140 house, wife and I

It was a very curious atate of were the happiest couple in the affairs, and instructed the Sergeant world.-Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P.

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